Origin Stories
Summary: What makes us human? How are we different from chimpanzees? Who are our earliest ancestors and how do we know? Origin Stories is The Leakey Foundation’s podcast about how we became human. This award-winning show combines science and narrative to explore our human story and explain why we are the way we are. Listen and explore human evolution one story at a time.
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Podcasts:
A fossil discovery in North Africa changes our understanding of when, where, and how modern humans evolved.
Why did early humans make art? What does it mean? Renowned prehistorian Jean Clottes has been working to answer those questions for more than 50 years.
Paul Salopek is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Explorer who is on an epic ten-year journey around the world on foot, tracing the path of early human migration out of Africa.
Her mission: squeeze through a 10-inch crack in a cave wall to help excavate an incredible fossil find.
Ancient stone tools are not a mystery if you know how to use them.
A Kenyan paleontologist has a hunch that leads to the find of a lifetime.
Our new season of Origin Stories is coming soon! This is a sneak preview of the first episode.
Why do humans engage in violence? Why do we cooperate in peace? How has violence changed over the course of human history?
Why do people risk their own lives to save a stranger? Why do we share food or give money to charity?
Episode 21: Follow the Leader?
Episode 09: Did Cooking Make Us Human? (Re-release)
Episode 20: The Power Paradox - LIVE
Episode 19: Being Human - Born and Evolved to Run
Episode 18: Empathy
Episode 04: How to Document a Society (Re-release)
